This blogpost doubles as a dynamic and ongoing project towards creating visual birding data for those who wish to bird at Branch Brook Park, and hopefully you peeps will also like the tidbit here about how and why I am doing this.

So basically, I want to be an environmental consultant and this is how I am leveraging my skills. As you can tell, I like working with computers. This blogpost ain’t a newspaper clipping after all. Using computers to do useful things has always been a desire of mine albeit stuffed out by my inclination to game at my computer for half the day.

Environmental consulting is the practice of working with environmental lawyers, the government or officiating bodies, and the people who wish to create infrastructure or buildings on habitable land for animals or flora. The consultant insures that through data collection and review or analysis that the action being done by the party should be safe or non-intrusive to the habitats of endangered or protected species. It may involve studying flight patterns, measuring populations, or using other data to make conclusions about the potential effects of the action in question.

Nonetheless, it is quite a cool job in my humble opinion. Who else do you know has said they wanted to be an environmental consultant?

Anyways, enjoy this little ongoing project as I try to enhance my own skills in the program of ArcGIS as well as provide substantial resources for birding in my favorite local park.